Meaning and history
Madeline is the English form of Madeleine and the name of the heroine of a series of children’s books by Austrian-American author Ludwig Bemelmans, first published in 1939.
20062006: 4,477 births, rank #71
2007: 4,705 births, rank #61
2008: 4,820 births, rank #56
2009: 4,300 births, rank #64
2010: 3,604 births, rank #77
20112011: 3,429 births, rank #85
2012: 3,162 births, rank #96
2013: 3,371 births, rank #90
2014: 3,445 births, rank #89
2015: 3,339 births, rank #91
20162016: 3,280 births, rank #90
2017: 2,966 births, rank #99
2018: 2,918 births, rank #100
2019: 2,861 births, rank #98
2020: 2,800 births, rank #96
20212021: 2,747 births, rank #95
2022: 2,700 births, rank #102
2023: 2,733 births, rank #95
2024: 2,922 births, rank #86
20252025: 3,086 births, rank #81
Madeline has unusual staying power. It appears in the US records as early as 1880 and still ranks #81 for girls in 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1998, with 5,869 births.